I have to say, that in my time as a designer I've had a lot of difficult clients to work with but the worst client I've ever had is myself.  You might be surprised, but one of the hardest parts about being a designer and owning your own business is creating a logo.  Just think of it this way, if you had all the money in the world, you'd want everything right?  It's the same with being a designer.  I want everything and I'm constantly finding new inspiration and thinking "maybe I could do that with my logo?"

Needless to say, my business has had quite a few logos in its short time but I think I have finally got one that I'd like to stick with.  You may have seen a version of this logo being splashed around on the website lately but I was finally able to put the finishing touches on it last night.  I designed this logo in low resolution, which kind of stinks because at some point I'll have to go back and design it again for high resolution for business cards, etc.  Fortunately for me, I don't use very many business cards right now and it's not a priority.  

I just transferred my feed over to Feedburner.  Hopefully, now I can get a good idea of how many people subscribe to my blog.  The new feed URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/colorburned/  I wish I had done this months ago.

A big congratulations to Tiago Franco (AKA Alarka) for winning over 300 high resolution textures from the Colorburned Shop!  I'm sure you'll make some awesome designs with them and don't forget, when you do, submit them to the Colorburned Flickr Showcase!  I'd love to see them!

Also, thanks to Fabio and Paulo over at Abduzeedo.com for helping me promote the Colorburned Shop on their website.  I was blown away at how much traffic his site pushed my way.  His site is a true graphic design monster!

In an unrelated note, I just signed up on Twitter.  Become one of my followers!

I just uploaded a new version of my resume.  I toned my old resume down a bit to make it cleaner and a little more printer friendly, I also added some new branding.  Take a look at it if you like and remember I am looking for a job and am willing to relocate.  If you're interested in hiring me, please contact me!

To thank every one who is participating in the Abduzeedo Giveaway, for a limited time I'm offering all the textures in my online shop for 50% off their original price but only if you buy all 6 sets.  That means you'll get over 300 textures for $35.20 USD.  That's an incredible deal, so purchase all 6 sets now and receive 50% off the original price and do it before time runs out.  All you have to do is enter the following discount code during checkout: SHOPIFYSKAGPZE6.  Thanks again everyone and good luck in the giveaway!

To view the 300 + textures available in the Abduzeedo giveaway visit http://colorburned.myshopify.com.

It's not every day that you get word that your work is featured in a major motion picture.    About a week ago I was told that a logo I designed about three years ago was featured in the new movie "Swing Vote".

Andrew over at MyInkBlog.com was nice enough to post a review of the new items in the Colorburned Shop.  If you haven't been to his website yet, check it out.  He has a great collection of graphic design tutorials and resources.  It's definitely worth a bookmark.

Today, I'm happy to announce the grand opening of the Colorburned Shop.  The Colorburned Shop is geared towards offering professional quality resources to graphic designers.  Its mission is to help graphic designers quickly build a massive reserve of resources for use in their projects.  Instead of selling photos one at a time, our goal is to offer a huge set of images at a very low cost.  This gives designers the option to choose which photo or texture to use so that each of their designs is unique.  On our site you'll find a growing number of textures that you will not find anywhere else.

The guys over at MyInkBlog.com have posted an interview with me regarding my experiences as a freelance graphic artist.  You can view the interview here.  

MyInkBlog.com is a great resource site for web and graphic designers.  Be sure to check it out!

Today I'm happy to announce the launch of the Colorburned Flickr Group.  I've released over 300 textures so far and I have another 1,000 or so in waiting to be published.  Please feel free to use these textures in your works and to post them to the group.   As soon enough works are added I will start posting them on my site for all to enjoy.

I'm going to be a little late this week getting parts 3 and 4 of the wet sand texture sets online.  I leave for New York City tomorrow afternoon to interview for graphic design positions.  I'm scheduled to return home June 23rd but if all goes well, maybe I will be staying a bit longer.  I will have my laptop with me so hopefully I will be able to get something online by Tuesday.  Anyhow, wish me luck and by the way, if you're looking for a graphic designer, I'm available.  Click here for my resume.

I just got back from my vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  It was nice being away but I'm happy to be home.  This is a photo I took by the beach at dusk.  I spent quite a bit of time taking some texture photos while I was away so expect to see some really great freebies on the site very soon.

Well, I'm on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico right now.  It's been a long trip so I'm trying to take it easy tonight so I can hit the beach pretty hard tomorrow, the next day and the next day after that.  I brought my small tripod along with me on this trip so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to take a few pictures of the beach at night.  Anyhow, this is the view from my hotel room overlooking the pool.  I'm going to try and take some cool beach photos over the next few days.  If they come out well, I'll add them as textures for you to download in the freebies section.

After a lot of hard work, I'm finally ready to announce the launch of my new website!  The site finally started to come together last week after having to switch my hosting plan to allow for an upgrade to Movable Type 4 (my blogging software).  Once that was done it was just a matter of implementing my new design and gathering together all my artwork.

I developed Colorburned.com as a means to showcase my artwork, share my thoughts on current design trends, and from time to time, offer some unique design resources and tutorials to other designers.

As you may notice, I don't have any freebies on my site just yet.  My first priority is to get all my artwork online and then get my site working the way I'd like it to.  Once that happens, I will use this section to share some of my artwork as downloadable backgrounds for your computers and mobile devices.  I also plan to release some unique artwork and resources for graphic designers to use in their own work.

Well, after months of anticipation I'm finally getting things moved in to my new website.  I had a few speed bumps along the way but I was finally able to put a nice design together.  I upgraded my blogging software to Movable Type 4 so it may take a little while for me to get the hang of things.  In the meantime, I hope you will bear with me.